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Sounds like a context feeder to me. There's already tons of these, with mcp support, which are multi-vendor. Why lock yourself to a single vendor?

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Claude Code is doing rounds right now. I picked up a personal project from a year ago (iOS app, not really a mobile eng here), and decided to go the rewrite with some new features to practice some LLM-skills. Honestly, the speed of development is so much faster compared to last year with Claude Code. It definitely helps that I generally know what needs to be done, so I can specify technicalities. And having a good E2E set up works as well.

But yeah, if Gemini with more context comes with a similar product, it could compete and win the developers.

+1 for Claude Code. I'm in the exact same boat - several personal projects with something of a backlog in each, that would've taken me maybe a weekend each to get done manually. Sat down with Claude Code a few days ago and hammered all of it out in an afternoon, it's very impressive. Not perfect, and as you say, having a good idea of what we're doing and how helps a great deal vs. figuring everything out from scratch. And having good tests and/or a stable test environment and processes running.

Another bonus for Claude Code: with the max plans, you don't have to worry about per-token costs. Sometimes a certain attempt does not pan out, but I don't have to feel bad because it didn't cost me hundreds of dollars for it to run a few hours.

60 requests per minute, 1000 requests per day out of the box.

Any concrete examples? Which one do you use?

I'm glad you asked (to be honest that was half the reason I posted the comment)

I use Clai[1] which I've written myself, so it fits my workflow the best. But I know llm [2] is a popular choice as well.

With both of these it's possible to have a 'vendor agnostic' version of both claude code and gemini CLI. Better yet: it's possible to very easily swap to the latest and greatest vendor by simply specifying their latest fancy new model.

[1]: https://github.com/baalimago/clai [2]: https://github.com/simonw/llm

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